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This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages.For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom.
This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /
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[a] The expected pronunciation, due to a more well-known name or word with the same spelling, is wrong; or [b] The actual pronunciation would not be a reasonable guess by a speaker familiar with general English spelling patterns but unfamiliar with the name at hand or with similar names (e.g. names in "burgh" or "cester").
I think names like Antawn, Chynna, MaliVai, Matraca , Michellie, Picabo and Wynonna makes the list of given names interesting. In the past common names like John have been added and deleted (both by other editors than me), the latter probably because of too high familiarity to be counterintuitive to anyone anymore.
The families and places with these names are in the UK, US, Australia etc. and it's the uniquely mangled pronunciation in English that gets them on the list. If lingerie (/ˌlɑnʒəˈreɪ/) were someone's surname rather than something else, it would make a perfect entry for the list, despite its undoubted French origin (where they innocently ...
Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
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